As of June 29th 2015, I will be moving into a Vice-Principal postion with the Richmond School district. Thank you to students and parents for many great years at Sullivan Heights Secondary!

Class of 2015

Kiran, Harjot, me, Serena & Celina dressed in our London hoodies at the airport. We all had an awesome time with the #shslondon gang!

Star Wars & Edgar Allan Poe

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If you would like to receive a mark update and are not currently receiving one, please email me and I will add you to my list of contacts. Also, marks are available to students posted in my classroom by student numbers.

If you have specific questions or concerns about your child's progress in the class, please feel free to email me.

**Student absences: please notify the school and me if your child is going to be absent for an extended period of time. It is our policy NOT to provide work to students before they leave for extended holidays, and so it is the responsibility of students to catch up on missed instruction/assignments when they return.

English 8 2011-12. Very intense Silent Reading? Except for the few whose books are upside down. So funny ;)

"For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet, II.ii

"To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written." -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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Remember, if you are struggling to read a Shakespearean play on your own, trying reading it aloud with some friends. By taking on roles, and hearing the language out loud, you will have a greater engagement with the play. Plays are not meant to be read like books and can be dry and tedious if read...

Revised: May 2006 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Department of English Style Guide
(Based on the MLA Style Guide)
www.sfu.ca/english/styleguide
The SFU Department of English (like English departments at most universities in North America) requires all work to follow formatting...

Ms Garr
garr_s@surreyschools.ca (please email me if you would like to receive regular mark updates/communication)
Sullivan Heights Secondary School
604-543-8749
AP English Literature and Composition is a class that allows students to earn college...